Study Guide for 11Th Grade Language Fall Final Exam 2015

Study Guide for 11th grade Language Fall Final Exam 2015

The final exam will be required for each student to take. This exam will be anywhere from 15-20% of your final semester grade. The exam consists of 70 multiple-choice questions, all of which you have been prepared to answer since July.

This study guide has been written directly from the final test; however, it is still very challenging and will require you to spend time on your own studying for this important college-type exam.

Study Guide Part I: Fill in the Answer:

1) Which of these are true about a symbol? a) something that compares two things b) something that takes the place of something else in an unusual way c) Something that represents something else d) Something that completes a conflict e) Something that is always introduced right away and there are multiples

2) Which one of these examples would be the BEST example of imagery? a) Chillingworth’s expectation that the letter “A” will bring fortune to his family. b) Kino, from the story The Pearl, thinking that when they find that pearl, bring wealth to their family and they will be rich. c) Pearl woke up in the dark and forgot where she was. d) “Pale pink covered the sky, while the lower brought darkness before night”

Explanation here:

3) What is the definition of denotation:

Example:

What is the example of connotation?

Example: 4) Which is the best and most logical example of what syntax is? a) The dog is a reddish color. b) Why would the dog be a reddish color? c) What! The dog is a reddish color?

5) What is the best example of juxtaposition? a) The moon was filled with a deafening silence. b) Paul and John’s personalities are the same. c) “ It was the best of times, It was the worst of times” d) Petals on a bough from which they were plucked. e) Petals are on a flower before leaving it. f) All of the above g) None of these are examples h) Only A, C, and D are correct

Explain answer:

6) Which one is the best example of what parallelism is in writing? a) Ms. Monte ran, played, and was walking after school. b) Ms. Monte was running, was playing, and was walking after school. c) Ms. Monte will run, then she will walk, and finally jog her way home. d) None of these show parallelism with Ms. Monte

Explain Answer:

7) Define an allegory and provide an example:

8) Symbols connect to what in a story? ______

Give an example in Street Car Named Desire which shows this connection

EXAMPLE:

9) Which of these are TRUE about a symbol within a story or poem? a) A writer puts a lot of emphasis on this symbol in the story b) A symbol is similar to a metaphor in the way that is always compares two things. c) A symbol shares a quality or sometimes several qualities with what it is representing in the story. d) A symbol represents something that is very different from it. e) A symbol can be in the form of words, sounds, gestures, and even visual images that are used to convey an important idea.

Explain why you chose the answers you did.

10) Thoreau Section: I would suggest rereading the “Walden” piece, on the internet, and revisiting some of the main ideas and themes throughout.

You will be tested, but not limited to, on the following:

A) His doctrine as expressed in the “Walden” excerpt B) Types of statement he may make, according to his beliefs C) His beliefs on society and how they conduct their lives D) Transcendentalism beliefs that were responsible for some of Thoreau’s actions and for him wanting to live at Walden. E) Does he believe a simple life would be a happy life?

11) This is the Dickinson Section: I would suggest going back and reviewing the poetry packet we just completed in the last few weeks. A) You will need to know the meaning and main themes in the poem, “ if You Were Coming in the Fall B) What some of the words mean in her poem such as: eternity, rind, Diemens, sting, befalls, spurn, and centuries delayed. Also, summer was not only the setting of her famous poem, “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” but also a strong metaphor within the poem.

C) Know the facts we discussed in Dickinson’s bio, such as why she was considered a hermit or what particular traits were in her poems.

D) We also compared Dickinson and Whitman. So, you should know what both of their poem types have in common.

E) Whitman reflected quite a bit about the Civil War in his poetry. He saw a lot of horror during this time; however, he was also able to retain a positive view of America and the Americans living in our country at that time.

12) Be familiar with Raisin in the Sun:

A) Know the relationship between MaMa and Ruth. MaMa really cares about her family, but tends to get involved in a lot of situations that don’t necessarily involve her. Name (5) situations in which MaMa gets involved with Ruth and/or Beneatha. B) What is the nickname Asagai gives to Beneatha and what does it mean? C) Know the definition of an assimilationist and be able to give an example. 13) Scarlet Letter Section: There will be several passages from this novel on your final exam. Read the passages carefully and make sure you understand what each question is asking. A few things to remember are: A) The overall tone at the beginning of the novel is ______

Give a quote that shows the opening tone:

B) Know the allusions and references in Chapter #1. Name two allusions and the type of allusion: A:

D) Remember that Hawthorne, as many of our authors did, tried to make This novel realistic or verisimilitude. E) This novel is mostly what genre of novel? ______F) There is a contrast between the rose bush and the prison door. Write down all the examples showing that important contrast. G) The opening chapter has some foreshadowing in it trying to create what

______.

H) The story did contain some realistic historical events in it such as witch craft, hangings of witches, religious banishments, public whippings, and other punishments such as Hester’s.

I) Know what the women in the crowd were wearing. Their garments are much different than what we wear today, so be familiar.

J) Read the following passage and answer these questions: Roger Chillingworth had been calm and kind, though not of warm affections, was a very pure and upright man. Ha had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the sever and equal integrity of a judge, desirous only of truth, even as if the question involved more than the air-drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem.

Sometimes, a light glimmered out of the physician’s eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or et us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan’s awful door-way in the hill-side, and quivered on a pilgrim’s face. The soil where this dark miner was working had perchance shown indications that encouraged him. ….But old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive, and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathizing, but never intrusive friend.

A) How is Chillingworth described in this excerpt? Provide example words from the passage to prove your answer.

b) What about Chillingworth is being tested in this passage?

______

c)It talks about a miner. So, who do you think that is? ______

d) What does ghastly fire mean in this passage?

e) Do the men have a deep friendship? Are the men very, very opposite? Does the doctor have a big concern for what is going on with Dimmesdale?

Rhetoric: As studied over our summer readings and during quarter I.

A) There is a triangle, which describes the parts of a rhetoric?

______, ______, ______

B) Other words which also refer to the elements of an argument.

______, ______, ______C) Which of these would NOT be an analysis? 1) Explain what the quotation means. 2) Clarify what the writer’s ideas are in the introduction 3) Tell what the purpose of the quotation is. 4) Tell what strategy the quotation displays. 5) Explain how to do something. 6) Summarize what the passage is about.

D) Read the following passage and explain what the speaker is trying to convey.

Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable t youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very Well. I have a few things on my mind which I have often longer to say for the instruction of the young, for it is one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable.

The speaker is trying to convey:

E) How is “such things” used here? “ The time has gone by for such things. You always seem to avoid violence, which is hard to do in this age of charity and kindliness.

F) Read the following excerpt and answer the question: Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be , in the eyes of the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a person can get into a lot of trouble from just ONE lie. Some authorities hold that the young ought to lie at all though. However, some have examples that show lies have allowed people to become wealthy because of what happened. For example, in Boston, there was a man who supposedly discovered anesthesia, but later it was found out that he didn’t discover it, but actually he stole the discovery from another man. A little, feeble lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to always avoid. You might as well just tell the truth. A final word is to begin your practice of this gracious art now. If I had begun it earlier, I could have learned to master this art, too.

What can you infer the speaker believes from reading this passage?

G) Read this passage, “ Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, articles, and manifestos.

a) They refer to a “colour” which is referring to what? ______

H) In this paragraph, what is inferred by the speaker? What is the main idea? But I have said enough. I hope you will treasure up the instructions which I have given you and make them a guide to your feet and a light to your understanding. Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts and by and by when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody elses.

I) Read the following passage, “ The political dialects to be found in these pamphlets, articles, or manifestos can all be interpreted differently depending on the party. But they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid turn of speech. When someone watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases such as atrocities, iron heel, or bloodstained tyranny , one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy.

a) What is the author’s attitude toward political writing and provide two words from the passage that show this.

b) The description of the “tired hack” is sending a message of what?

c) This is an example of what, “ In our time, political speech and writing is largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended. d) While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.

What is the effect that these lines will most likely have on the audience and reader?

______e) In this statement, “Some confortable English professor defending Russian Totalitarianism , would show what,” what does the word comfortable mean?

f) “ A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts of soft like snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details” Is showing which of these contrasting images? o Preponderancy and delicacy o Clarity and confusion o Specificity and ambiguity o Darkness and illumination o Descent and elevation

g) In the same sentence, what does “soft like snow” refer to?